Epidemiological disaster research: the necessity to include representative samples of the involved disaster workers. Experience from the epidemiological study air disaster Amsterdam-ESADA

Anja C HuizinkInstitute for Research in Extramural Medicine and Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, NetherlandsJ Epidemiol Community Health 60:887-9. 2006

Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity and early onset of cannabis use

..Starting in 2000, the Epidemiological Study Air Disaster in Amsterdam (ESADA) aimed to assess the long-term health effects of occupational exposure to this disaster on professional assistance workers...

Attribution of physical complaints to the air disaster in Amsterdam by exposed rescue workers: an epidemiological study using historic cohorts

..On 4 October 1992, a cargo aircraft crashed into apartment buildings in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Fire-fighters and police officers assisted with the rescue work...

Epidemiological disaster research: the necessity to include representative samples of the involved disaster workers. Experience from the epidemiological study air disaster Amsterdam-ESADA

Anja C HuizinkInstitute for Research in Extramural Medicine and Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, NetherlandsJ Epidemiol Community Health 60:887-9. 2006

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Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity and early onset of cannabis use

..Symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have often been associated with early-onset smoking. We hypothesize that reductions in ADHD symptoms due to an intervention have a mediating effect on early-onset smoking...

Chernobyl exposure as stressor during pregnancy and hormone levels in adolescent offspring

..The nonshared environmental influences were best modeled by a Cholesky decomposition for internalizing behavior, whereas a time-specific influence of the nonshared environment was included in the final model of externalizing behavior...

Symptoms of anxiety and depression in childhood and use of MDMA: prospective, population based study

..Therefore, the evidence supports the view that exposure to prenatal stress may result in a general susceptibility to psychopathology, rather than exerting a direct effect on a specific form of psychopathology...

..The aim was to identify risk indicators from preadolescence (age period 10-12) that significantly predict unfavorable deviations from normal anxiety development throughout adolescence (age period 10-17 years)...

Psychological distress of rescue workers eight and one-half years after professional involvement in the Amsterdam air disaster

..Our results suggest a developmental reversal in genetic and environmental influences on behavior problems from early adolescence into adulthood, which could be related to different underlying developmental trajectories...

A systematic review of prospective studies on attention problems and academic achievement

..Our aim was to provide an overview of prospective studies that have addressed the association between attention problems (AP, i.e. symptoms of hyperactivity and inattentiveness) and academic achievement (AA)...

Baseline cortisol measures and developmental pathways of anxiety in early adolescence

..The ongoing Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam has one pre-disaster and several post-disaster observations, making it possible to study changes in health, taking pre-disaster health characteristics into account...

Stress during pregnancy is associated with developmental outcome in infancy

..Studies concerning long term consequences of mother-child reporting discrepancies on child's internalizing problems are few, but show a risk for adverse outcome. More prognostic research is needed...

Testing sex-specific pathways from peer victimization to anxiety and depression in early adolescents through a randomized intervention trial

..Animal experiments have convincingly demonstrated that prenatal maternal stress affects pregnancy outcome and results in early programming of brain functions with permanent changes in neuroendocrine regulation and behaviour in offspring...

No effect of classroom sharing on educational achievement in twins: a prospective, longitudinal cohort study

..The generalizability of studies on internalizing problems in early adolescence in twin samples should be addressed with care. Twinship may be a protective factor in the development of internalizing problems during early adolescence...

Predicting onset of cannabis use in early adolescence: the interrelation between high-intensity pleasure and disruptive behavior. The TRAILS Study

..To examine the relationships between exposure to the air disaster in Amsterdam and multiple physical symptoms among firefighters and police officers, and to explore the role of post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) herein...

..Avoidance of the stressful situation and aggressive coping are frequently used and related to postnatal depression and other negative outcomes. Little is known about coping strategies in nulliparous normal-risk pregnancy...

..Increased maternal stress during pregnancy seems to be one of the determinants of temperamental variation and delay of development of infants and may be a risk factor for developing psychopathology later in life...

Temperamental risk factors for adolescent cannabis use: a systematic review of prospective general population studies